According to a new study, HIV/AIDS cases in London during the 1990s were in part driven by transmission of the virus within several “clusters” of people around the city, news service United Press International reports (upi.com, 3/19).
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital found that many people transmitted HIV to one another within months after becoming infected themselves.
The researchers say that the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in London was not slow and steady, but quick and episodic within multiple clusters of men around the city.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
